Andrée Clément brings goth noir to Roxie Theatre in S.F.

Andrée Clément was a spooky, interesting French actress who died of tuberculosis.

Andrée Clément was a spooky, interesting French actress who died of tuberculosis.

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Andrée Clément was a spooky, interesting French actress who died of tuberculosis.

Andrée Clément was a spooky, interesting French actress who died of tuberculosis.

Photo: Roxie Theater

Andrée Clément brings goth noir to Roxie Theatre in S.F.

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MICK LASALLE’S MOVIE PICK

Have you ever heard of Andrée Clément? Probably not. I never heard of her until the Roxie programmed an Andrée Clément double feature — “Devil’s Daughter” and “The Back Streets of Paris.”

Just on the evidence of these films, both from 1946, Clément (1918-54) was a seriously weird and interesting talent, with a quality unlike anyone else: fierce, intelligent, desperate, scary and uncompromising.

The better of the two films is “Devil’s Daughter,” a strange and effective noir in which she plays an evil, angry young woman running a coterie of petty criminals, while suffering from tuberculosis — the illness that would claim Clément herself at age 35.

“The Back Streets of Paris” is of value mainly if you want to see something of Clément’s range, because there she plays a nice person.

Don Malcolm, who programs the Roxie’s French noir festivals, will introduce the double feature. It’s a chance to become acquainted with an actress who was goth before goth was cool.